Apple crop at Dave and Pam Zack's
CONNECTING an idea
If we look for our common ground rather than our differences, we can create connections rather than divisiveness.
WELCOMING an idea
We can be grateful for the job it has done, and let it gently fall away, like a beautifully colored Fall leaf falling to the ground having done its work, allowing it to “retire”... making space for a new way of seeing, being, and/or doing to take root with another season.
WAITING FOR an idea
The soul is like a wild animal - tough, resilient, savvy, self-sufficient, and yet exceedingly sly. If we want to see a wild animal, the last thing we should do is go crashing through the woods, shouting for the creature to come out.
INTUITING an idea
We can access and utilize all four sources of knowledge in partnership with each other to expand our personal and social power, the ability to have impact on ourselves and others, to take more effective action in the world.
Clark Fork River, Missoula, Montana
POLARIZING an idea
“Our journey through life is one of peril and possibility—and sometimes both at once. How can we stand on the threshold between suffering and freedom and remain informed by both worlds?"
ENLIVENING an idea
What makes you come alive? What do you live for? What, if taken away from you, would significantly reduce your joy and quality of life?
TRANSFORMING an idea
As you imagine the lushness of Spring and Summer yet to come, you might take time to imagine alternative (although not necessarily better) versions of Bob Anderson's questions:
TREADING an idea
"The real trick to producing great work isn't to find ways to eliminate the edgy, nervous feeling that you might be swimming out of your depth. Instead, it's to remember that everyone else is feeling it, too. We're all in deep water. Which is fine; it's by far the most exciting place to be." --Oliver Burkeman
MINDING AN IDEA XV
Also inherent in travel are opportunities to practice curiosity, empathy, generosity, and kindness with other human beings who are also leaving someplace, going somewhere else, or who are temporarily stuck.
PRACTICING an idea
How do we shift our habits? We start by becoming aware of them and really getting to know them...by paying attention to what we are doing and how we are being.